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  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Hahahahah is this what it's actually about? I haven't bothered to watch the four fucking hour video of some people i've never heard about yelling at each other but friends seem to think it was entertaining.

    • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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      1 year ago

      https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?si=YMUmT6q9uPl2kn4O&t=12101

      Its actually quite fucked, dude is steamrolling over actual queer writers and thinkers, many of whom are dead or languishing in obscurity, guy is a fuckhead

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Is there like a 2 page precis? I don't know who any of these people are. I know Hbomberguy exists but I have no context on what he does or why people listen to him. Like I need some kind of briefing, here, to even understand what kind of context to put the context in to when i get some context.

        • SerLava [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          hbomberguy showed a lot of specific examples of blatant plagiarism from 4 or 5 very large youtube channels. They were basically just Googling topics every day, changing scripts/articles from "but" to "and" or "he went" to "he traveled" and then reading it off to B-roll they often also stole. Many of them were also just stealing entirely from one production, as in just recreating a documentary in its entirety. They were making hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars by stealing all this stuff. At that point it's less of "some rando" and more like a substantial media operation ripping people off

          The plagiarist stealing queer content was always getting compliments for great writing, and it turns out when they did a second pass on a script they got caught on, trying to change the words around a just a bit more, he was actually a dogshit writer

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Thank you for the summary. I can see now what the concern is and why it is important within that sphere.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I enjoyed it. It's rambling in terms of the overall thesis, but everything he says does have a purpose (that might not help the thesis but still means something).

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      It could have been a 30 minute expose, but instead, he pulled out a folder full of receipts and just started reading them verbatim into the camera.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        That's the thing for me, by the time it came around to something I might care about it's already been 2 hours of shit I don't care about that is only sort of related. By the time it was getting there I was already tuned out.

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I've been laid up with sickness for three days and I still can't talk myself in watching a 4-hour video.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        As I was scrolling by, I read this as you saying you wouldn't watch it simply because "I've been laid", which, well, fair enough

        • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Hmm, makes sense. I basically need to work 8 days straight with little sleep to put me in the headspace to watch a movie, so you may be onto something.